Salt Lake Times | 1891-03-30 | Page 4 | Immigration Increasing

Allhough the season for 'A'Jjuj'iQ travel is not yet at hand and although this winter has boon unusually stormy, slill tho rush of foreign immigration has rarely been so creat. l ive steamers on one morning the past week brought into New York three thousand new candidates for citizenship, und it is no exaggeration to say that a thousand aliens daily land on Ihe Kattily. Tho emigration ollieers have been overworked over-worked for months. Uncle Sam is evidently evi-dently in high favor. Humors of war in Europe, hard times, oppressive legislation leg-islation and social discontent all tend to swell tho ranks of the modern crusades. cru-sades. We are desirous to know how the amended immigration act passed by the last congress is working; how many undesirablo or dangerous characters are kept out of the country under its provisions. We fear not many. The new law is an improvement on" the old in guarding more carefully against the importation of alien, contract laborers, but tho means of detection are limited and the measure therefore only partly operative. Nothing short of consular supervision will ever regulate our foreign for-eign immigration so as to make it a source of benefit unmixed by apalling evils.